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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many speeches did King give in Memphis in March, 1968, about aid to government employees and against antipoverty policies?

2. King assessed the summer of 1963 when he noted it was what?

3. After a tentative agreement was reached on 11 May 1963, segregationists bombed what locations?

4. A dynamite blast killed how many young black girls in Sunday school at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on 15 September 1963?

5. King was arrested on 12 April 1963 for violation of an injunction against protesting by which Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did King and Abernathy leave jail in Birmingham?

2. How did King view St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964?

3. What did King say in his address at the Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the Nobel Prize?

4. What did King observe about Northern riots?

5. What transpired in the SCLC headquarters when it was learned that James Meredith had been shot?

6. What did King relate about Malcolm X' being in Selma, Alabama, during the nonviolent movement and Malcolm X' comments to Coretta?

7. Just shy of a year before he was assassinated, what point did King indicate had been reached?

8. How did King view Birmingham, Alabama?

9. How did King describe life?

10. In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, how did King address the eight ministers who questioned direct action?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the four central barriers that King saw as being employed by Southern communities when denying blacks their right to vote. How did he describe these barriers as being utilized?

Essay Topic 2

Survey King's review of his trial on charges of falsifying income taxes for the State of Alabama for 1956 and 1958. What reasons did he give for having believed he would be found guilty? What reasons did he offer as being in his favor? If he was convinced the jury was prejudiced against him, why did they not convict him? Would the jury not have ruled against King's black attorneys despite the level of their professional legal skills?

Essay Topic 3

Characterize King's perspective of John F. Kennedy from his Presidential candidacy through his assassination in November, 1963. How was it affected subsequent to King's meeting him? Delineate King's view of Kennedy's commitment to civil rights. How did King compare positions Kennedy adopted with actions he took during his administration? What was his opinion subsequent to Kennedy's death?

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